PHL244H1 Lecture 19: Week 10 Lecture 1: Berkeley
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Lecture 19: george berkely on minds and ideas - of the principles of human knowledge excerpts. 1685-1753 ad: berkeley comes before humes in time, he comes after him logically (empiricism, berkely > humes > locke. Anglican bishop of cloyne: active in the church / education. Obtained a royal charter to found a college in bermuda: he thought new world would be a great place for education to take off, wanted new beginning. In rhode island when his political support was denied. All knowledge is by experience not by forms, no built in apparatus to get in touch with inner thoughts: arch empiricist. All experience is by perception (very broadly): can include memory / imagination: sensation primary base level of perception, memory secondary operation of the senses. Perception is of ideas :: ideas is what we perceive (impressions: sense impressions. To be an idea is to be perceived. Being perceived is passive (by the mind)
